When the 15th hole at Manor Golf Course is rocking, it can only mean one thing: rehearsal night for N.E.W. athens.
This quartet of Rockville rockers, gaining attention of late for the way they play the finest worksongs of the 1980s alt band R.E.M., practice in the enormous, teal-walled musical-mancave of their lead singer, golf-and-guitar enthusiast View more

When Alice falls through the rabbit hole at Imagination Stage this summer, she will find herself on a very different adventure from any Lewis Carroll created back in 19th-century England. The title, “Wonderland: Alice’s Rock & Roll Adventure.” offers a glimpse of the exploits ahead:

In the pursuit of a career in directing, Helen Aberger is “doing a little bit of everything.” The retired oboe player with a degree in music from the University of Miami works a day job in fundraising at the Washington Performing Arts Society, but her most recent project is at the helm of “The Mikado, or The Town of Titipu,” the classic operetta View more

Craig Wallace has a confession to make. “The only class I ever failed in high school–ever!—was algebra,” said the Helen Hayes Award-winning actor who, despite his incongruous ninth-grade academic defeat, plays a mathematical genius onstage in “Proof” at Olney Theatre Center. “I needed a little more time,” Wallace explained, noting that View more

Common roots--classical piano training and early immersion in gospel music—nurture the talents that combine to lead Washington Performing Arts’ (WPA) gospel choirs. The maestros--Stanley J. Thurston and Michele Fowlin—will conduct the 100-plus combined voices of the adult and children’s groups in a concert that will celebrate gospel music’s View more

Who’s the boss? Garry Tallent. He may be the OG of Bruce Springsteen’s mighty E Street Band, but when the multi-instrumentalist affectionately known as The Tennessee Terror tours in support of his 2016 rockabilly album, “Break Time,” there is no doubt who’s in charge.

Justin Weaks has always liked to entertain audiences. Growing up, he started his performance career in gymnastics. "I feel like gymnastics has its performance elements. You step onto an event and you are doing the event. It is your show. I was drawn to that." He tried theater as an elective in sixth grade and the acting bug bit him--hard. During an View more

They say Washington, D.C. is a company town. For husband-and-wife director-actor team Aaron Posner and Erin Weaver that means being part of the theater scene here, not the government—and “Or,” at Round House Theatre, is the couple’s latest successful show.

Since early childhood, performing has been Veronika Farkas’ way of life. In her native Budapest, Hungary, the preschooler attended strict European-style voice, dance and acting classes. “I was roped into musical theater, but always gravitated toward dance,” recalled the founder and director of the Germantown-based VF Dance Theater that will perform View more

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